Since I was in elementary school, I knew that I wanted to go into journalism.

In fifth grade, I wrote an essay saying I wanted to be a public speaker and a news reporter. I believe my reasons for both were because I wanted to have a public voice (I was very much a chatterbox), I hoped to share information, both good and bad, with the people who lived around me, and because at the age of 10, I very much enjoyed coming in from playing with the neighbors in the alley and tuning in to the evening news on TV.